Sr Staff Engineer — AI Security Architecture (HYBRID)

At GEICO we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company we want you to feel valued supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer in AI Security Architecture to design and build the next generation of intelligent cybersecurity automation. This is a hands-on technical role for someone who thinks in systems codes with discipline and sees AI as an engineering surface not a shortcut. Youll operate at the intersection of security architecture agentic AI development and developer enablement helping engineering teams across the enterprise build securely and ship confidently.

What Youll Do

• Design build and maintain agentic AI systems including React loops tool orchestration and RAG pipelines in production-grade Python

• Author and refine complex domain-rich prompts that encode security architecture knowledge into reliable repeatable LLM-powered workflows

• Conduct AI-assisted architecture and secure design reviews across enterprise systems identifying weaknesses early and guiding teams toward paved-road solutions

• Partner with engineering teams as a hands-on security architecture advisor reviewing designs accelerating production readiness and raising the bar on secure-by-default thinking

• Build and maintain integrations with enterprise platforms including Azure AD Azure DevOps Slack and internal APIs with a strong command of the auth and governance landscape that comes with them

• Write infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling using Terraform and/or Ansible to operationalize security controls at scale

• Apply your knowledge of CI/CD pipelines containerization and orchestration both as surfaces to secure and as tools to build with

What You Bring

• Strong security architecture background you can identify automation opportunities before theyre on anyones roadmap design novel solutions and guide teams toward secure scalable patterns

• Hands-on experience building fully agentic AI systems; chatbot wrappers dont count

• Demonstrated ability to write long complex domain-rich prompts for production LLM workflows

• Production-grade Python skills and the discipline to keep a codebase clean as it scales

• Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts and how they intersect with security risk and assisted coding workflows

• Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible for infrastructure automation

• Broad hands-on experience with CI/CD networking containerization and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes Docker) both as things you secure and as tools you build with

• Fluency writing API-driven automations and integrating with enterprise platforms

Experience

• 8 years in software engineering security engineering or a hybrid architecture role

• 3 years of hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure preferred)

• Demonstrated experience shipping production AI/ML systems or security automation tooling

• Experience with identity and access patterns OAuth/OIDC and enterprise auth integrations

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity or equivalent experience

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.